By frag_editorial This video began with a 2023 Discord thread among videographic scholars discussing ChatGPT’s implications for pedagogy and videographic criticism. Participant Ariel Avissar asked ChatGPT to generate a mock dialogue between “Jason Mittell” and “Johannes Binotto” debating videographic modes. Adopting the shared text, we used Colossyan’s AI actors to animate this fictional exchange as a collaboration mediated by machine interfaces and input/output interactions to think about authorship, machine collaboration, and academic voice. The video is part satire, part provocation, and part community experiment and we invite viewers to continue the “conversation.”
About the makers
Colleen Laird (PhD) is an Assistant Professor of Japanese Cinema at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) whose research focuses on gender, authorship, distribution, and spectatorship. She is an active videographic essayist invested in building collaborative videographic projects, pedagogy, and opportunities for scholarly exchange and co-creation.
Dayna McLeod is a queer media artist-scholar who actively engages queer and feminist approaches to research-creation through art and media. Her video essays have been published in [in] Transition, ASAP/Review, Teknokultura: Journal of Digital Culture and Social Movements, and Intermédialités: History and Theory of the Arts, Literature and Technologies.
Colleen’s Website: colleenalaird.com
Colleen’s Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/colleenlaird
Colleen’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@colleenlaird4879
Dayna’s Website: https://daynarama.com
Dayna’s Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/daynarama